The Producers
Just saw the Producers, so wanted to put something quick up about it. First, Will Ferrell as Franz Liebkind is the finest Nazi ever seen on screen, ever (including Chaplin’s The Great Dictator). Ferrell pulls off the required lunacy with just the right level of crazy/unhinged stares, facial expressions, and general mayhem. Plus, he wears [...]
Flock
So I’ve been using the Flock browser to update my website for the past couple of links (hence those little Technorati tags at the bottom of the post)… it’s quite a neat little browser, some distant cousin of Firefox to my knowledge, and you can see. Basically, as Firefox was a stripped-down version of Mozilla, [...]
Food for thought?
Apparently, it is illegal to eat a ballot in Canada… from the Elections Canada FAQ… Q: Is someone allowed to eat a ballot?A: Eating a ballot, not returning it or otherwise destroying or defacing it constitutes a serious breach of the Canada Elections Act. Link (via BoingBoing) technorati tags: Canada
Chrismakwanza
Happy holidays (et cetera)!
King Kong
The most… notable… accomplishment of Peter Jackson’s King Kong is that despite the fact that you know what’s going to happen, it still beyond anything makes you hope and pray that the ending is somehow changed. I wonder what it must be like to, for an all-too-brief moment, have something so unbearably precious and amazing [...]
This Unit Demands Suffrage!
This world is not black and white. Not Good or Evil, not Love or Hate; this much is readily apparent. However, despite this, as logicians, we endeavour to make sense of things, to quantise things, and once quantifications have been introduced, everything eventually falls down to this: 0, or 1. Black, or white. Those in [...]
No Disassemble!
Not much to say, other than busy with university work. Am done now, going to France for the next couple of days, back by Saturday. Japan’s premier Koizumi gets attacked by a robot. This is funny, and very Japanese. Watch.
Go Philly!
Philadelphia gets (almost) free city-wide WiFi (with WiMax to follow). Panicking telecos, already absurdly restrictive in the US (pay for that bluetooth on your handset? yes, please), worried that people are (shock! horror!) going to get things for free in this terrible, apocalyptic unregulated madness, immediately employ many politicians to make sure the same can’t [...]
France about to get worst copyright law in Europe?
France, that bastion of liberality (except when it comes to headscarves and skullcaps), may just ban Open Source and free software, as well as put stupid restrictions on just about everything else – this includes * A prohibition on all software that permits transmission [disposition is unclear without greater context] of copyrighted material that does [...]
More on aircraft
An article for planeguy here; Salon’s resident aviation expert talks about the 747-8 in his latest column (click-through ad or registration required). I’ve already made my views on the 747-8 and the A380 more than clear, though I do agree wholeheartedly that the 747 is a much more graceful, prettier airframe. I also agree that [...]
